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This spring, The Story of Stuff Project is a
hive of constant motion, producing storytelling
projects that take on the plastics crisis,
e-waste, fast fashion and more. Here’s what
we’ll be sharing with you – and asking you to
share with your friends and family – in the
coming months!
A Hard Hitting Short Documentary:
Burning Injustice
A subject in Story of Stuff’s Burning
Injustice explains why a mega polluting
incinerator was built in his community in
California’s Central Valley:
“They did this by design. It’s
because we’re Latino, we’re Spanish-speaking.
It’s because we’re a [low-income] farm working
community, and it’s because it’s environmental
racism
basically.”
Burning Injustice is about a
grassroots, multigenerational effort to close
Covanta Stanislaus, one of California’s two
remaining incinerators, and usher in a just
transition for the community – one that invests
in a zero waste future.
As the Ohio derailment disaster made clear,
plastic is deadly at every stage of its
lifecycle, from when the oil and gas leave the
well head to its end of life in landfills,
incinerators and the environment. In fact,
burning plastic creates new, super toxins – like
dioxin, the most toxic man made substance known.
Burning Injustice profiles a community on the
verge of victory as they seek to shut down the
incinerator for good.
The film will be accompanied by an engagement
campaign developed in concert with the campaign
partners, which will focus on a secondary
target: the corporate clients in Covanta’s
misleading Zero Waste to Landfill
initiative. Spoiler alert: they burn it.
Talking Heads on Key
Issues
Story of Stuff is known for breaking down
opaque topics into digestible stories that
stick, and that’s what the explainer videos
we’ve got lined up intend to do. First up, we
break down the Global Plastics Treaty in advance
of the next round of negotiations in May. We’re
planning an Earth Week release of the video to
boost our movement’s advocacy for a strong
treaty.
We’re also tackling electronics – the world’s
fastest growing waste stream and an imminently
solvable problem, if we rethink some elements of
design and embrace the right to repair.
Something else we’re too quick to throw away is
our clothes, and we’ll take a look at the
monumental costs of cheap, fast fashion, and its
alternatives.
Lastly, we’re wrapping production on our
(very) successful
Solving Plastic series, which reached over a
million viewers with solutions to the plastics
crisis that really work, and ramping up our
storytelling in support of the Reuse Revolution,
a global campaign being organized with partners
in Break Free from Plastic around the
world.
We’ve been busy – and we hope you’re looking
forward to these upcoming releases as much as we
are!
All the best,
The Story of Stuff Team
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